Scenes of Innovation II
TORONTO August 5-7, 2014
Short Program
IASCC 2014
This year’s conference Affective Cities: Scenes of Innovation II is the second annual meeting of The
International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC). The conference events are
hosted by The Culture of Cities Centre (CCC) at The Centre for Social Innovation (CSI New York in 2013
and CSI Toronto—Annex Building in 2014) and are produced in partnership with York University, and
the University of Waterloo. We coordinate scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, institutions, and urban
research centres across the globe to engage thematic issues related to scenes of urban innovation.
The Culture of Cities Centre is celebrating its fourteenth year and is active in engaging local and
international academic scholars, artists and social entrepreneurs in the interdisciplinary study of
culture and the city. The Affective Cities conference includes diverse paper presentations, panels and
social activities organized around theoretic and applied practices across a range of disciplines in the
social sciences, humanities and fine arts.
Our breakfast plenary speakers represent four continents, speaking to a range of affect and its
application for studying the city and urban culture in the context of a globalized world. The artistic
exhibition explores affect in relation to visual and documentary form and will be on display during the
opening Wine and Cheese reception. On the second evening we ask you to join us for Dinner in the
historic Mirvish Village, a sixty year old neighbourhood currently undergoing plans for demolition and
redevlopment. We invite you to a special closing roundtable discussion on the final day of the program
to dialogically engage thematic panels and shape future collaborations, publications and projects.
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Since its inception, the Centre has encouraged international collaboration, hosting workshops,
seminars, film series, salons and conferences open to public participation. Our research projects and
publications are publicized and maintained on our website, with plans to launch a bi-annual newsletter
highlighting the research and focus of researchers, writers, policy-makers across IASCC membership
and through our participation in the Consortium of International Humanities Centres worldwide.
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Collaboration
Publication Opportunities
This year’s conference proceedings will be published and housed through York University York Space
and will be published with the Culture of Cities Centre. Paper submissions will be formally accepted
after the conference ends with more specific details made available on our website.
Conference proceedings will be published and made available on YorkSpace, an institutional platform
that organizes and preserves research online. Using a special standards-based software platform to
collect usage statistics, York Space ensures high visibility on the Internet. Additionally, the Culture of
Cities website and twitter will promote and house all digital material, as well as related digital
humanities publications.
Delegates with research in the final stages are encouraged to submit individual essays to a peer-review
publication entitled, Affective Cities to be published in the Culture of Cities Book Series with McGillQueens Press. Additionally, we invite conference participants to submit individual manuscripts for
review for any of our book series. We actively edit three book series: The Culture of Cities with McGillQueen’s University Press, Culture, Disease and Well-Being, and Urbanities with Intellect Press.
Conference Address:
720 Bathurst St. W., Suite 321, Centre for Social Innovation Annex Building)
Toronto, ON M5S 2R5 CANADA
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416-323-3251 (O) | 416-457-1691 (C) | cultureofcities.com
DAY ONE
Creation Lab, CSI Annex, 4th Floor
9:00 – 9:30
Registration Bagel Breakfast, fruit, coffee and tea
9:30 – 10:30 Welcome and Keynote
Keynote: The Provocative Uses of Affect in Imagining the Life of the City
Alan Blum, Executive Director, Culture of Cities Centre; Senior Scholar, Department of
Sociology, Social and Political Thought, Communication and Culture, York University;
Adjunct Faculty, Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo (Ontario CA).
10:30 – 11:15 Morning Plenary Speaker
Dreamland America/Arrivals in New York
James Donald, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (University New South Wales
AU)
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Session 1: Interdisciplinary Interventions
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:45
Session 2: Heritage and Reinvention
2:45 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 5:00
Session 3: Practicing Urban Affect
5:00 – 7:00
Wine & Cheese and Art Exhibition (The Garage, CSI)
Precipitations
Elaine Wing-Ah Ho, (Hong Kong CN) and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, (Berlin DE)
Texture/Tone
Sheraz Khan and Scott Kobewka, (Toronto, Ontario CA)
DAY TWO
Creation Lab, CSI Annex, 4th Floor
10:00 – 11:30 Breakfast Plenary Speakers
Bagel Breakfast, fruit, coffee and tea.
11:30 – 11:40 Break
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Hacking the Urban Unconscious – Code, Cities, and Place-Making Imagination
Bruce Janz, University of Central Florida, Director, Center for Humanities and Digital
Research (CHDR) USA.
Living Through Blurred Genres
Francisco Cruces Villalobos, Founder of the Urban Culture Study Group at UNED, ES.
11:40 – 1:00 Session 4: Virtual Affectivities
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:15
Session 5
Session 5A Theoretic Encounters Conference Room, 2nd Floor, CSI
Session 5B Risk and Resistance Conference Room, 3rd Floor, CSI
3:15 – 3:30
Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:45
Session 6
Session 6A Sensory Disorders Conference Room, 2nd Floor, CSI
Session 6B Selves and Scenes Conference Room, 3rd Floor, CSI
5:00 – 8:00
DELEGATE DINNER
Southern Accent Restaurant, Mirvish Village (Held adjacent to the Conference Site on
Markham Rd.) Address: 595 Markham St, Toronto, ON M6G 2L7
DAY THREE
Conference Room, “The Garage”, First Floor, CSI
10:00 – 11:30 Breakfast Plenary Speakers Bagel Breakfast, fruit, coffee and tea.
Exciting and Boring: Rhetorics of City Life in the Contemporary Metropolis
Jean-François Côté, Université du Québec à Montréal, Sociologie; Co-Investigator of the
Monteal-based project Médialités urbaines/Urban medialities, (Montreal, Quebec CA).
Forced Inertia: Mobility, Interruption, and Stasis
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Future Fellow and Distinguished Professor, iCinema
Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, (Sydney, AU).
11:30 – 11:40 Break
11:40 – 1:00 Session 7 Spatial Transformations
1:00 – 2:30
Hot Buffet Lunch Connecting with Research Centres
WISER Plenary (Virtual)
Johannesburg as an “Elusive Metropolis”
Sarah Nuttall & Achille Mbembe
Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand,
(Gauteng, ZA).
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Closing Roundtable: Collecting the talk, publications, peer review network,
IASCC 2015.
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2:30 – 4:30
SESSIONS
SESSION 1: Interdisciplinary Interventions
Tracing Urban Affect: A Collaboration in Art, Technology, and Anthropology
Ellen Moffat, Independent Artist, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA;
Kim Morgan, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University, Halifax, Nova Scotia CA;
Martha Radice and Derek Reilly, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia CA.
SESSION 2: Heritage and Reinvention
The Local and the Cosmopolitan: Is Joyce part of Dublin or is Dublin part of Joyce?
Kieran Bonner, St. Jerome’s University and The University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario CA).
Nostalgia and the Uncanny: Exploring the Role of Historic House Museums within the
Contemporary Urbanscape
Alevtina Naumova, York/Ryerson Universities (Toronto, Ontario CA).
Trajectories of Affect: In the Ruins of the Theatre of Cruelty at New York’s 9/11 Memorial and
National Museum
Elke Grenzer, Culture of Cities Centre, York University (Toronto, Ontario CA).
SESSION 3: Practicing Urban Affect
From Intervention to Internalization
Han Zhang York University (Toronto, Ontario CA).
An Accidental Urbanism or an Instant Urban Affect
Daniel P. Karpinski and Lauren Haein An
Chang School of Architecture, Ryerson University, Centre for Social Innovation Toronto, and
University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design (Toronto,
Ontario CA).
Texture/Tone: Processes and Experiments in Sensory Translation
Sheraz Khan and Scott Kobewka, (Toronto, Ontario CA)
Affective Malls: The Transmission of Appetite, Energy, Appreciation
Helen Yung, Independent Artist (Toronto, Ontario CA).
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The Conscious Body and Shared Experience
Andrea Nann, Artistic Director, Dreamwalker Dance Company (Toronto, Ontario CA)
SESSION 4: Virtual Affectivities
Suggestibility and Social Media
David Toews, York University, (Toronto, Ontario CA).
Navigating the Networked City: How Mobile Communications Technologies Have Reshaped
Our Experience of Urban Space
Anne Marie Galang University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario CA).
The Emotional Quality of Scholarly Blogging
Amelia Ruby Howard, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario CA).
Curating the City
Aruna Handa, Alimentary Initiatives (Toronto, Ontario CA).
SESSION 5
SESSION 5A: Theoretic Encounters
Jane Jacobs as a Theorist
Stanley Harvey Raffel, Edinburgh University (Edinburgh, Scotland GB).
The City and the Spectacle: Affective Resistance and the Urban Commons
Jessica Elaine Reilly, Western University, (London, Ontario CA).
Locating Affect in Lewis Mumford’s Theory of the City: the Antidote to the Rise of ‘PostHistoric Man’?
Maggie FitzGerald-Murphy and Jon Careless, Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario CA).
SESSION 5B: Risk and Resistance
City Traffic and Avoidance
Benjamin Waterman, University of Waterloo. (Waterloo, Ontario CA).
Mapping Distress in North American Suburbs: An Obstacle to Urban Transformation
Magda Maaoui, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley California, USA).
The Interruption of the Normality of Street Harassment: Hollaback Movement as a Form of
Resistance
Nancy Regina Gomez, Universidad del Norte (Athens,Ohio US).
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Material Remainders: Debt and Anxiety across the Urban Landscape
Christopher Gutierrez, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec CA).
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SESSION 6
SESSION 6A: Sensory (Dis)Orders
“With Bated Breath”: Death, Odour, and Room to Breathe in the Victorian City
Monika Lemke, Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario CA).
The City of Din: Affect and the Urban Soundscape
Saeed Hydaralli, York University (Toronto, Ontario CA).
SESSION 6B: Selves and Scenes
Affect as Infrastructure: Folding and Unfolding the City
Steven Bailey, York University (Toronto, Ontario CA).
Moral Space & The City: The Question of the Self in the Urban Milieu
David Lynes, St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia CA).
Thinking Amateur Choral Singing as an Affective Scene: Urban Vocalise
Jan Plecash, Independent Scholar (Toronto, Ontario CA).
SESSION 7: Spatial Transformations
Heavenly Structures: Conflicting Ideologies of High-Rise Architecture in Chicago
Emma Stein, University of New Mexico (New Mexico, USA).
From a Communist Military Factory to an Urban Tourism Attraction: 798 Art Zone in Beijing,
China
Yiping Li, The University of Hong Kong, (Hong Kong, CN).
Suggestions of a Local Urban Design Language in the Process of the Globalization of Cities,
Case Study: Iranian City
Shahrzad Faryadi, University of Tehran (Tehran, IR)
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Designing to Heal
Jenny Donovan, Principal, Inclusive Design (Melbourne, AU)
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